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Moslems claimed for Pakistan the famed Moslem-built Taj Mahal at Agra, deep in Hindu India, only 100 miles from New Delhi. Extremist Hindus retaliated by claiming the river Indus (deep in Pakistan), on the ground that the sacred Hindu Vedas had been written on its banks some 25 centuries...
...first Prokofiev, the ex-emigre, was held suspect by the others, but the indus try with which he turned out marching songs and heroic legends during the war, despite recent stretches of illness, seems to have proved his musical patriotism...
...plan was only a part of the great step WPB took toward reconverting U.S. industry. Without wait ing for a formal announcement, WPB quietly put into effect its own plans for V-E day. As fast as it could, WPB began to lift the system of controls from indus try and turn loose manpower and materi als for big-scale civilian manufacture...
...Milwaukee's Nunn-Bush Shoe Company set up a "52-pay-checks-each-year" plan at small expense. It has been handsomely repaid in increased worker efficiency. It now boasts that its 900 workers covered by the plan are shoe indus try's highest paid. Estimated income (excluding supervisors) last year...
These points alone will not secure peace, Vansittart wrote, but no peace is possible without them. His basic reasoning: The German Right is beyond redemption; its militarists, Junkers and heavy indus trials must be liquidated as a class and as a political force. He growled that the German Left is not much better; most German Socialists have been infected with militarism. In both wars, said he, the Allies have had to fight the German people in arms. The main thing is to destroy their power to rise again: "We must realize that this is by far the greatest, most barbaric...